Washington: Identifying first Indian-American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund as among early trailblazers for Asian-American community, president Barack Obama said the community must be treated beyond as the model minority. Reaching out to the untapped Asian American community ahead of the November presidential elections, Obama said treatment of Asian Americans must go beyond treating them as [...]
Washington: In a bid to smooth key ally Pakistan’s ruffled feathers over a lawmaker’s call for self-determination in restive Balochistan, the United States has reiterated that it supports Pakistan’s territorial integrity. “The United States respects the territorial integrity of Pakistan,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Tuesday when asked about a resolution proposed [...]
Washington: The US said that India will be the linchpin of its new vision of an economically integrated and politically stable South and Central Asia and noted that “Pakistan has to be part of the solution, or they will continue to be part of the problem” in Afghanistan. “The future of politics will be [...]
Ignoring India’s concerns and veiled warning that it would drag the US to the World Trade Organisation, President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that would provide free health care to the first responders of the twin-tower terrorist attack in New York in September 2001. Obama took some time off from his vacation [...]
Following the latest baring of U.S. secrets on the Internet, Congress is poised to pass legislation giving employees in the most sensitive government jobs a way to report corruption, waste and mismanagement without turning to outside organizations like WikiLeaks. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bill, and it is viewed by supporters as [...]
India on Tuesday sought to strike a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with the US to further ease trade and economic ties. Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma, speaking at a function organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) said that India, which has firmly stood against any protectionist move, has been [...]
The world’s biggest rich and emerging powers escalated a war of words over trade and currencies on Thursday, as leaders opened a G20 summit struggling to iron out distortions that threaten global growth. The United States, striving to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades, locked horns anew with exporting giants China and Germany [...]
As President Barack Obama left New Delhi at the end of his maiden visit to the country during which he identified India as an indispensable partner, his predecessor George W Bush said he believes that India has the potential to be one of the closet partners of the US. “I believe India, home to roughly [...]
Full security in Delhi and Mumbai this week — complete with snipers on rooftops — would enable India’s security establishment and the US Secret Service to tie loose ends in providing the “fool-proof” security promised by Home Minister P. Chidambaram during President Barack Obama’s first state visit. The full security rehearsal in Mumbai on Thursday [...]
By signing the Convention on Supplementary Compensation in Vienna, New Delhi appears to have addressed the one big issue troubling the US administration and supporters and critics of closer ties with India. “We were looking really stupid,” a former state department official, who was closely involved with the signing of the agreement with India in [...]
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